Quilting Department
Quilt crafts are for more than dressing your bed! Today, quilting is used for home décor, clothing and much more.
Our Quilting department will show you the basics and teach you piecing techniques. You’ll find tips and hints, quilt blocks, free projects and even a quilt shop finder to help you find your local quilting store. And for the more-advanced quilter, you’ll find information on the foundation or paper piecing technique of quilting.
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Recent Videos and Tutorials
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Learn to make classic quilt block, the sailboat block. This free sailboat block pattern can be used in a quilt, wall hanging, pillow or many other projects.
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How to sew an easy strip quilt. A strip quilt is a quick and time-saving way to whip up a quilt and is the ultimate quilt for beginner quilters.
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What to do with leftover batting? Learn how to join batting pieces together with sewing machine.
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How to Join Quilt Binding Strips
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How to Machine Quilt with the Serpentine Stitch
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Learn how to make a cute Halloween pumpkin mug rug with this free pattern. An ideal project tutorial for using up scrap pieces of fabric.
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Learn how to sew a Sailboat Quilt! With our free tutorial, use the classic sailboat block pattern to sew a quilt. Charming fabric stash buster quilt.
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This page and video tutorial will show a completed string quilt and give ideas and tips for making your own. A scrap busting quilt.
Book and Magazine Recommendations
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Marie AndersonDesign and Create Your Own Memory Quilt In One Weekend! This book is for anyone who has wants to make their own memory quilt, T-shirt quilt or scrapbook quilt.
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This magazine has quilting projects with full-size patterns, easy-to-follow instructions for quilters of all skill levels.
New Stuff
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Free PDF download of 5 different graph papers perfect for quilters. An e-mail address is required.
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I See Stars Quilting
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This page has all kinds of printable graph paper with options to print different densities of boxes and many different types: multi-color, circle grid, accented grid, dots, boxes, cross grid, hex box and more.
This page even includes many patterns like hexagonal, knitting grid, triangle, brick, Celtic knot, circles, diamonds, tumbling blocks and more. All are also customizable to your needs!
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Incompetech
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How to make a necktie quilt.
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Crafty House
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Basic information on making a necktie quilt.
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Anita's Piecing and Quilting Tutorials
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As inspiration, this is a photo of a necktie string quilt. It is a way to use old neckties. No instructions. Just picture.
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Flickr
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Customize the graph paper to different size paper, different grid spacing per inch, different grid color and more.
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Incompetech
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Find hundreds of different graph paper downloads from dot graph paper to hexagon graph paper.
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Muse Printables
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Two interesting templates for quilting graph papers.
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Word & Excel Templates
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Illustration, instructions and video describing how to make the common stitch primarily used for outlining.
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Annie's Attic
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Take a plain graph paper and draft your own hex, diamonds or triangles.
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Faeries & Fiberes